What is SEO Spider?
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a small desktop program which spiders websites' links, images, CSS, script and apps. It also fetches key onsite page elements for SEO, presents them in tabs by type and allows you to filter for common SEO issues, or slice & dice the data how you see fit by exporting/ importing into Excel. You can view, analyse and filter the information as it's gathered and updated continuously in the program's user interface.
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92 Likeliness to Recommend
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98 Plan to Renew
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90 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+90 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love SEO Spider?
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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SEO Spider Reviews
Christopher J.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2024
The backbone to an SEO Audit
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SEO Spider from other similar products?
Screaming Frog largely does what other crawlers can, but does it in a simple, accessible fashion. There are other features available in SEO Spider like the ability to crawl for looking for specific information on a page, or creating a tree map of a websites architecture, however its best feature is how throughly, quickly and easily it crawls and website.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's not a fancy feature, but I love that there's a very simple output from any crawl that indicates potential issues. The user can click the issue and all the affected URLs are shown. It just gives a quick indication of a website's general SEO health.
What do you dislike most about this product?
it would be useful if there was an online crawling option. Running screaming frog on a big website can really slow my laptop while its running and memory often runs out.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would try the free version, its good enough for a small website and will give a good idea of what you could get by paying for a subscription in future.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Shikher G.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2024
Fantastic product for technical Site Auditing
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SEO Spider from other similar products?
It supports custom data extraction using CSS Path, XPath, or regex and easily integrates with Google Analytics and Google Search Console for a complete and easy SEO analysis. These features are rearely found in SEO products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Custom data extraction and Integration with GA and GSC.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Initially, it can be difficult to use due to the many customization options available.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Begin with the free version to explore its basic features and understand its capabilities.
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Hanna P.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2023
Great depth of detail for technical site crawls
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SEO Spider from other similar products?
The crawl details and ability to define what you are crawling for is unmatched.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Using for flagging specific content recommendations, technical issues, etc.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The interface isn't super intuitive and requires training/learning.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Assign someone to lead and understand the inner workings/capabilities.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
Cons
- Slower Product Innovation
- Less Inspiring
- Charges for Enhancements